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Ubuntu upgrade

Gustavo Felisberto — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:26:56 +0000

This is a mental note to myself so that I do not have to google every time I want to do an upgrade of a Ubuntu system to a new release.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get get upgrade sudo apt-get install update-manager sudo update-manager -d

Timetracker in Linux

Gustavo Felisberto — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:25:05 +0000

The very nice Timetracker application now runs at some 90% under Linux.

The software is a dotNet application that runs in Mono. Under ubuntu (Jaunty 9.04) you need the core that is probably already installed and:
sudo apt-get install libmono-microsoft-visualbasic8.0-cil libmono-winforms2.0-cil

The only annoyance right now is that the software is distributed as a .exe file that cannot be run in Mono. You have to either install the software in a Windows machine and then copy the installation directory to your Linux machine, or use Wine to run the Installer.

Vmware keyboard issues

Gustavo Felisberto — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:22:16 +0000

I’m running Windows XP inside vmware. The host machine is running Linux (Ubuntu jaunty). I was having issues with the keyboard where the arrow keys would not work, or would do the wrong thing (down key would open the start menu).

I found a solution that involved editing ~/.vmware/config and add a line like:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true
But this would not work properly as Vmware would think I had a Japanese keyboard and some keys would not work.

I found another solution and this one seems to be working fine. Instead of the previous code add this to your ~/.vmware/config:

xkeymap.keycode.108 = 0x138 # Alt_R xkeymap.keycode.106 = 0x135 # KP_Divide xkeymap.keycode.104 = 0x11c # KP_Enter xkeymap.keycode.111 = 0x148 # Up xkeymap.keycode.116 = 0x150 # Down xkeymap.keycode.113 = 0x14b # Left xkeymap.keycode.114 = 0x14d # Right xkeymap.keycode.105 = 0x11d # Control_R xkeymap.keycode.118 = 0x152 # Insert xkeymap.keycode.119 = 0x153 # Delete xkeymap.keycode.110 = 0x147 # Home xkeymap.keycode.115 = 0x14f # End xkeymap.keycode.112 = 0x149 # Prior xkeymap.keycode.117 = 0x151 # Next xkeymap.keycode.78 = 0x46 # Scroll_Lock xkeymap.keycode.127 = 0x100 # Pause xkeymap.keycode.133 = 0x15b # Meta_L xkeymap.keycode.134 = 0x15c # Meta_R xkeymap.keycode.135 = 0x15d # Menu

Skype + Video now in Linux

Gustavo Felisberto — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:37:59 +0000

Skype just released the first beta version of their Linux client with video support. I already added it to the Gentoo Portage, but as it is a Beta release you’ll have to package.unmask it:

emerge --sync echo net-im/skype >> /etc/portage/package.unmask echo "net-im/skype **" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -av skype

As Skype beta tester I’ve been using these releases for some time and must say that I’m quite happy with the result, just a few quirks with some webcams, but nothing to serious, and maybe now there will be a good motive to pressure for nice drivers.

If you have any problems fell free to bug me and I’ll try to give you a hand. My Skype name is gustavofelisberto